First of all, you don’t need permission from anyone to delete your own personal OkCupid account. This is something that can be done anytime and you don’t even need to have a valid reason for it, but sometimes these online dating sites make it so difficult to delete or make it so that you need to request permission from the site to delete your account. Luckily OkCupid has a simple solution that allows you to delete your account yourself without much effort. Here’s a step-by-step guide.

Steps

1

Log in to your OkCupid account. You should be automatically directed to your homepage. If not, click on the OkCupid logo to go to the homepage. Now drag your mouse over your profile name on the most right-upper hand corner and a drop-down list should appear.

2

Click on “Settings”. You should now be in your “Settings” page for your OkCupid account.

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Click on the “My Account” tab if you are not already there. On the bottom right-hand corner, you should see a “Delete account...” button. Click the button to move on. You should now be the “Delete Your Account” page.

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Make sure you read the ‘What you need to know’ section before deleting your account and after deleting your account -- some things can’t be undone.

This is PERMANENT! Your messages, essays, questions, etc. will be removed, and no matter how many emails you send, OkCupid can’t restore them.

This will not free up your username! That is locked forever, to avoid ambiguity.

Your email address, however, will be freed in case you want to sign up again.

OkCupid will stop sending emails, but you may get one or two stray emails the week of.

Check any one of the boxes shown to explain why you are leaving OkCupid.com and make any comments/suggestions in the provided box (this is not required though). Then enter your password and click on the ‘Delete my account’ button and you're DONE! You have just confirmed the deletion of your OkCupid account.

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Tips

Sometimes, when you think you've removed your profile from OkCupid, your profile might still appear in Google searches (chance for someone searching for you to find your OkCupid review of your profile). Sometimes it's still cached or the page is simply not removed from Google yet. Follow the instructions here to remove it.